A SNAPSHOT: THE FIRST DAY OF EDITOR SARA’S MATERNITY LEAVE: Swear to Allah, we’re really not in that bad of a mood! Then again, who are we to argue with an algorithm?
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Dick Cheney Torture Death Buttsecks
Good God Jim! What are you implying she is giving birth too?
That looks like it’s from the worst slot machine ever.
Rock Creek Park is the scariest thing in that list.
Yeah, and no alt-text, also and you betcha.
Replace that cartoon Cox with flash of Michelle Malkin doing Her Marvelous Ping Pong Tricke™ and we got ourselves a Wonkpocalypse.
Dick Cheney Tortured Death, And He Won.
Since when does Al got rhythm?
Well, I DO miss the LOL cat pics.
That kid is going to have one hell of a baby scrapbook.
There is a Federal law that requires the words Torture and Death to be placed next to Dick Cheney’s name where ever it appears. Read the Patriot Act people!
I for one think it’s important for wonkette to balance out cute baby pictures with terrifying reminders of what a horrible, awful world we actually live in. Is it too early to drink now?
Congrats Sara & Family! What a cute baby. Libertarian, Democrat, Republican, Independent? Time will only tell
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What? My favorite Wonketteer is on maternity leave? What the hell? She can stay at home with the kid and post things from home! Hell, they do that in my company, too! My boss spent two weeks in Jamaica but checked in almost daily with the office. You never have to leave your job! Embrace the modern miracle of technology!
Of course, I’ve already tendered my resignation, and will be out of here on September 11, so maybe it’s not that great, actually.
Listen: I’ll take Sara’s place and the six-figure income that professional group blogging no doubt proffers. I promise not to get pregnant, too. I’ve got writing samples and my cholesterol’s okay. Let me know.
[re=398995]hiphophitler[/re]: Not for me. Here you go, buddy. Say when….
I miss Sara. Also, I may be losing my job for spending so much reading teh wonkette.
No lie.
Missing “TO” between torture and death. Fail.
You can tell if someone is going to be good in the sack by watching their algorithm.
I demand to see the long-form birth certificate.
Is she spending this maternity leave in sunny Kenya? ‘Cause that’s where I hear white wimmens go to have their communist muslin children.
BTW, mazel tov SKS!
[re=398999]Larry McAwful[/re]: I have 5 more months myself. I have the ability/authority to telework and I am still leaving.
[re=399025]finallyhappy[/re]: Good for you! I could probably adopt your screen name, which is finally apt for me for the first time in a while. But I won’t. I’ll remain Larry McAwful.
All this talk about how hard jobs are to come by, yet I know a number of people who are voluntarily leaving theirs. In my case, it’s a matter of looming mental breakdown or heart attack, whichever comes first. Now it’s time for grad school and a career as an ESL teacher. When I’m finally working again, I won’t be able to post on Wonkette during the day, which is a grave sacrifice. That’s about the only up side to being a cubicle monkey.
Eight more days of work! Eight! Eight!
How come you’re leaving your job?
[re=398999]Larry McAwful[/re]: my boss goes on vacation and calls me several times a day to see what’s going on. but he’s never been able to top the time i asked for a week off and he said that would be fine, as long as i came in every day to check the mails (snail, e-, and voice). he was serious and with no sense of irony (he is still serious and seriously irony-deficient). i told him that was okay, i had changed my mind and didn’t guess i would be taking that week off after all. who needs a vacation? they’re overrated. i can sit right here at my desk, being vacant and getting paid.
[re=399034]Larry McAwful[/re]: I’m just old enough to retire(I’m a long time Fed)- and my job has become tedious and my office a mess. I have had too many friends and former colleagues who died shortly after retirement or got sick and died before they were able to retire. I have friends who are retired but are not healthy enough to enjoy it. I hope to do more things I want to do and to do more community service(not court ordered!) for as long as I can. I am going to work with kids in a reading program at a local school and with the local shelter- among other things(politics -as a campaigner – not a politician- is one of my major activities now). Good luck to both of us in our better new lives.
That’s right Newell make the headlines so awful and depressing that she won’t want to come back because she’ll correctly think that all that doom and gloom will rub off on the new baby. We sure will miss you Sara. Hey but on the upside I hear that other Sarah is looking for a fill in job until 2012. Ah, think of the possibilities.
[re=399057]finallyhappy[/re]: Sounds heavenly. Best of luck in the new, self-defined iterations of your life. Think of us office drones left behind.
I’m just shocked that we got to see pictures of the little guy. We weren’t exactly worthy of them.
The mother is supposed to get the post-partum depressesions, Jim, the mother, although how she can’t be thrilled after just giving birth to the new hereditary king of Wonkette, I don’t know.
She gets maternity leave? The terrorists have won.
[re=399095]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: New hereditary… what, is the kid a Kennedy now?
I thought she’d just tie off the after birth, throw the young’un into ruck-sack and get back to pickin’ rice (or whatever the hell it is they do there).
Maternity leave…sounds socialist.
[re=399087]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Unworthy? Speak for yourself.
To compensate for your unworthitude, you can accept diaper-duty. With Vitter.
I dunno, the phrase Dick Cheney Torture Death puts me in a good mood.
End of the month finacials..that’s how I feel too, like giving birth..fuck you creditors and vendors……
In ‘My Antonia’ the title character pops out a kid in the AM and spends the PM plowing the Nebraska prairie. And thus the central maternity-leave policy of the thoroughly bipartisan Baucus-Grassley Great Plains Cooperative Healthcare Reform Bill was born.
Not shown: Famine, Pestilence, Human/animal hybrids …
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